Three minute heroes...

When lightening hits small wonder -Its fast rough factory trade,No expense accounts, or lunch discountsOr hypeing up the charts,The band went in, ’n knocked ’em dead, in 2 min. 59

The Clash - Hitsville UK

According to my preferred choice of media player, all of these clock in at three minutes dead.

C'est la Vie / Bob seger
It's just the night / I am kloot
It don't come easy / Ringo Starr
Farewell is a lonely sound / Jimmy Ruffin
Don't look back / Bruce Springsteen
The way old friends do / Abba
Bernadette / Four Tops
Love letters / Frankie Miller

and finally
Groove me / King Floyd
much better than the Fern Kinney cover

Time to test Babs reaction time, all meant to be 3:01

The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping

Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Accidents Will Happen

Boz Scaggs - What Can I Say

Bruce Springsteen - Incidsent on 57th Street

WEDNESDAY


To the best of my knowledge, only one of the following songs has previously been played on the show.


'Trouble' - Little Feat ~ 2:15

'Jealous Man' - Hoyt Axton ~ 1:38

'Wond'ring Aloud' - Jethro Tull ~ 1:55

'She's Too Lazy to Be Crazy' - Hoyt Axton ~ 2:10

'Eh Umna Therefore Eh Um' - Saint Andrew ~ 2:26

'Dinna Ast Me [Eh Dinna Ken]' - Saint Andrew ~ 2:55

'Get Your Buisquits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed' - Kinky Friedman ~ 2:23

tautological git

I See what you mean about Ane Brun 'big in Japan'.

#4 all too short....they want to cut the track off

"You can suggest longer songs if you like..."

Songs shorter than 3 minutes are cool. If it were not so, our beloved presenter would have told us. Besides, it gives Miss Babs more time to talk.

>8-D

#7

Norrie,

How long is yon song that goes

"Me, I'm just a lawnmower! You can tell me by the way I walk!" ?

>8-D

Pavement - Mona 3.00

When it's Good - Ben Harper 3.00 - more than good!

Let The Candlelight Shine - Frankie Miller 3.00

Wilbury Twist - The Traveling Wilburys 3.00

You Can't Get that Stuff No More - Tampa Red 3.00

#9 about time someone showed some concern...thanks.

From my 45's collection...oldies, but goodies:

Spooky - Classics IV 2:38

Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots 2:44

Traces - Classics IV 2:40

Good Day Sunshine - The Hit Crew 2:07

More Today than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase 2:50

Happy Together - The Turtles 2:56

Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela 2:37

Elenore - The Turtles 2:31

Hey Baby - Bruce Channel 2:22

Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & the Techniques 2:21

#12

Welcome!

Now that MadMac has served his time I'm oot here in the wilderness masel'. Just as well Scotch Git refers to himself in the third person. He might be alone, but he'll never get lonely.......

The Beatles The Fool On The Hill
Makes it in at about 3 minutes flat. And is a brill song.
As does (and also is)
The Mamas and Papas This Is Dedicated To The One I Love

short, not sweet.
Urge Overkill Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
It's a few seconds over the limit - but being cut off at 3 minutes won't diminish it in any way.

nor will TJ mind his cover being uncovered too soon
Tom Jones and Stereophonics Mama Told Me Not To Come

;o)

Paulo, you'll have survived the fitbaw than?

This theme is stupid.

#17
Goldie Lookin' Chain You Knows I Love You
Cut it off at 3 mins - you still get the drift. Love it. A brilliant parody of itself.

#14 Whit?

I wiz cuttin' the dryin' green tonight "petrol mower Norrie" & whilst the radio in the garage was on blah, blah....

Maybe a word fae Mark Radcliffe fixed it ;-(

I'm wie Scotch.. one Swallow doesn't make a Summer!

Madmetrosexual repeat offender


BTW Norrie, The DKs sang about a Lawnmower

#19 No children were involved in the lawnmower incident

The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde - Georgie Fame

This comes in at 3:08. If they cut the song short, the listening public might be fooled into thinking they're still alive.................






Daaaammmmmnnn........


I just spoiled the ending

The first 'they' referred to Bryan n Babs and the second to Bonnie & Clyde. Thought I'd better make that distinction

#16
legs were fine today but the lungs were knackered.
tomorrow the lungs will be fine and the legs will be knackered

#23 you clearly don't smoke and drink enough.

Tell Me Why - Neil Young

Just under three minutes and just as well as it would be a pity to cut off this fine opener to the album "After the Goldrush".........daft, but engaging lyrics, trademark "distinctive" vocals and a winning guitar riff.....what more could you want?

* Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
3:00 is just after the best bit of the closing trumpet solo
* Landscape - Einstein a Go-Go
* U2 - Desire
3:00 dead
* The Shadows - Classical Gas
3:00 is the closing chord

and all shorter than 3:00
* The Beatles - Why Don't We Do it In The Road
* The Specials - Too Much Too Young
* Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
* Led Zep - Immigrant Song
* The Doors - People are Strange
* The Primitives - Crash
* Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
* The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
* Madness - Baggy Trousers
* Jace Everett - Bad Things
* The Go-Go's - Our Lips are Sealed
* Cream - Strange Brew
* Traffic - Hole in my Shoe
* Fairport - Meet on the Ledge

Hey Jude is an ideal candidate. 3:00 more or less exactly of the song followed by 4:19 of "na nah na nah na" etc. repeat to fade but could Ms B hit stop just as Macca reaches the songs highlight......and why would you want to I wonder.

Similarly with Jungleland. 3:00 is the start of the great Bruce then Big Man solo.....I can imagine Brooooooce fans hurling their red baseball caps against the radio in frustration...

Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross
Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
Marvin Gaye - Can I get a witness
Pink Floyd - Dogs

#23 - I usually find it goes legs and lungs the second day then legs on the third.

Francesca: Roy Harper
Mining For Gold: Cowboy Junkies
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want: The Smiths
Brown Eyed Handsome Man: Buddy Holly
Pink Moon: Nick Drake
Days Like These: Billy Bragg
Walk Away Renee: The Four Tops
Alternative Ulster: SLF
Silly Thing: The Sex Pistols
MLK: U2
After Midnight: J J Cale
Your Mother Should Know: The Beatles
White Rabbit: Jefferson Airplane
It's Still Rock and Roll To Me: Billy Joel

now i don't know if this song was ever #1 but if the good GIO folk hear this they may all down load it and put this song where it deserves to be ...right up there with da best....eva!!
everybody deserves a treat at their T time...............

'lana'............roy orbison

cheers frae the dale

Bryan
You have to trawl the 70's when records were shorter to get some short songs.
The first record I 'almost' bought was Crazy Horses by the Osmonds. I sent my brother out down to North Berwick to buy it with my saved up pocket money and he came back with a copy of David Bowies Life on Mars. So make a wee lad from the 70's happy and play the Osmonds best tune.

I think we're missing the point of this theme. It's not about songs that are 3 minutes or under, it's songs which make their impact in 3 minutes & the remainder is the play-out.

Broken Down Angel - Nazareth

fits the bill

Layla - 2:43 of the single, total length 7:02

#17 - Glen Miller - Yes, it is.

#32 - DC - No, it isn't.

;o)


Kansas City Star - Roger Miller

Actually, anything by Roger Miller would be good to hear. Not King Of The Road but. That song irritates me.

:o)

#6 Paolo and BB checked out big in Japan too, wow and then the next then the next and on and cant get any work done now I am so spaced out and calm, mellow even.

would like to hear Bohemian Rhapsody squished into 3 mins or some of those long drawn out rock numbers that are good or even great but after 3 mins one is like "ok I get the point, enough now" you know the ones

WEDNESDAY


Forgot a Hoyt Axton song..."Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get?"


'Bony Fingers' - Hoyt Axton & Renée Armand ~ 3:04

CAPTION COMPO............

back seat ned looking character in the shades (speaking without lip movement).......'that's it, first right past the science centre........huv youse got the tull cd's ready?'...............

roubles'll do me fine thx.

cheers frae the dale.

#34

I think it is, as evidenced by "Tomorrow night is about the songs that can make an impact in 3 minutes. You can suggest longer songs if you like but my plan is to cut them off after precisely 3 minutes"

If Babs cuts off a 2:50 song after 3 minutes, we'll have 10 seconds of silence

Often requested, always ignored...

Roxette ~ Dr Feelgood

Hey Little Sister ~ T. Meat Purveyors

I'm Alive ~ 999
Three Times Enough ~ Nine Below Zero
Pinetree Boogie X ~ T. Legendary Shack Shakers

3 mins or less!

and just when the programme is running out of time lets see if one more can be squeeze into the last minute..............
it can too, literally.................

'la derniere minute'..................carla bruni

cheers frae the dale

#38 that would definitely be better than a discussion on whether veggie burgers can go off

#42 @ ya gaie they can but don't try that at home


cheers frae the dale

Small,beautiful and perfectly formed.No, I dont mean Kylie. I was thinking of Laura Nyro's two minute symphony of cooing handclapping and fingersnapping "I Met Him on a Sunday"or indeed any track from the glorious homage to 60s girl groups"Its Gonna Take a Miracle"(ten tracks and clocking in at 35 minutes). In two minutes you get the whole story.The rest is silence!Same goes for Jefferson Airplane's ravishing little instrumental"Embryonic Journey"Twelve string heaven.Less is definitely more.I would also love to hear Bob Dylan's epic borefest "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"so as they can cut it.Too many words.Same goes for "Free Bird" by Lynard bleedin Skynard.Too many notes.:0)Cheers ,Willie Bartke

Gram Parsons + Emmylou Harris - 'That's All It Took'...think it just squeezes in under 3 mins.
As does The Undertones - 'You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)?'...their best single I think.
And...Steve Earle - 'Guitar Town'
And...The Ronettes - 'Baby I Love You'
The Hollies - 'Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress (3:02)...sounds so much like CCRf
The Coral: 'Dreaming Of You' 2:21
The Beatles - 'If I Fell' 2:22

I think Gene Pitney - 'Town Without Pity' might be under 3 mins.

Talking Heads – Love -> Building on Fire (2:59)

The Strokes – Last Nite (3:12)

A bit too long but that's OK ☺

American Pie is far too long especially Madonna's version ☺

Don't want to hear it...

#43

@Dalenotkevin, I know that and you know that but apparently not everyone else's noses are as finely tuned.

for today I'd like to suggest

4'33'' - John Cage

#42

LOL, spot on!

BTW, saw a lad (16 approx.) in a Kelvinside uniform on Drymen Road this morning. He was cradlin' a transparent cake box.. sponge cake!

"Here's something for your teachers... that I made with eggs on the turn!"

Captain Beefheart - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains

Love Like a Man - Ten Years After 3.08

Last Kiss - Joe Bonamassa - an offer you can't refuse - a chance to play the hitherto scorned Joe and cut off a fine 7.15 song at 3.00 by which time several people will have resolved to go and listen to some more immediately

#8, #32, #34, #38


Seems the West Coasters are correct.

>8-D

How long is Billy don't be a hero. Could we save his life?

#50 gaie.
Good pick LOL

Has 'Oliver's Army' overtaken 'Hanging on the Telephone' as the most frequently heard song on GIO?


We should be telt!

>8-D

#56

For a song that's been banned in most other PC countries, its done alright for itself on GIO.

Is it the kind of thing that should be aired on tea time radio?


:)

#54 Ye shifted the goalposts











Again

Did you get a song played tonight Scotch? I only managed to hear the first half hour

#59

I didn't hear the entire show. I'll check the playlist.


#57

An interesting question! It is his cultural heritage, so I guess for him it's okay. In the same way that some Jewish jokes are best left to Jewish comedians.